Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-25

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NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary u Important Events.
A WESTERN waterways convention is
called to meet at Memphis, Tenn, Octo-
Der 20 to q.
REV. Dr. PARKER, eulogist of Henry
Ward Beecher, sailed from London for
New York on the Goth.
HENRY GEORGE was nominated for Sec
rotary of State of New York by the United
Labor convention at Syracuse.
a PUBLIC meeting at Winnipeg, Man.,
was held on the 10Th to discuss CONNER.
cial union with the United States.
RUSSIA asks the Powers to join her in
protesting against the validity of Prince
Ferdinand's claims as Prince of Bulgaria.
A FRENCH professor named Jenot was
arrested near Metz on the 10Th on sus-
picion OF being spy, but was afterward
released.
ryYh nj IN all
have withdrawn from the Unionist party
on account of the proclamation of the Irish
National League.
REV. EDWARD DoANE, an American
missionary in the Caroline Islands, has
been imprisoned on charge Of melting the
natives to disobey the Governor.
IT is semi-officially stated that the
cholera in Sicily has been overcome and
that there is no longer any danger of the
disease spreading at Naples or Resina.
THE First National Bank of Heppner,
Ore, capital, $50, 900, and the First Nation.
al Bank OF Madison, Neb., capital, $50, 600,
have been authorized to commence bust
ness.
GENERAL FERRoN, French Minister of
War, has one to the Alps to establish
definitely the defenses of the southeast
ern frontier, and to organize a new Alpine
corps.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, is greatly excited
over the news of a suit filed to set aside
the will of the late Washington G.. De-
paw, who died worth So, DOC, 900. An only
child by his first wife is the plaintiff.
1t is stated at the War Department that
the unpleasantness between Colonies Burns
and n ivrln hac hoop auoico hlu aH in ta6
to the satisfaction of the principals, and
that the threatened court martial is avert
ed
A NUMBER of arrests have been made in
Philadelphia of employees of freight trains
on the Pennsylvania railroad, New York
division. The prisoners are said to be the
leaders of an extensive gang of freight-car
thieves.
THE Michigan weather service bulletin
issued on the 18th reports the growing
crops favorably affected during the week.
The rainfall in many localities was in
sufficient to save early planted potatoes
and corn.
A CYCLONE swept the southern portion
of France on the 10th, doing an immense
amount of damage. 1t was most severe in
the Department of Aude, where many
houses were leveled to the ground and
several persons killed.
THE Pope has conferred upon the Duke
Of Norfolk the grand cross of Christ in rec
ignition of his services in behalf of the
church. The Duke of Norfolk is about to
purchase large palace in Rome in which
to establish a university.
THE crop bulletin of the Manitoba De-
partment of Agriculture, just issued,
shows that the indications all point to a
very large return through the province.
The weather is very favorable, and the
wheat harvest is in full swing.
DIR. BRIDGE, the Pennsylvania State
veterinary surgeon, visited Manor town
ship on the 18th to investigate an alleged
case of pleuro-pneumonia. No traces of
the disease were found, and the doctor
stated that there was not case either in
the county or in the State at the present
time.
To SHOW how worldwide is the interest
taken in the recent railroad catastrophe in
Illinois, it may be stated that several peo-
pie at Peoria have received dispatches
from Europe, more especially from Ger
many, making inquiries after friends and
relatives who were believed to be in the
wreck.
THE Secretary of War has directed four
companies Of the Twenty-third Infantry,
stationed at Fort Wayne, Mich; Light
Battery F, Fourth Artillery, at Fort Shell
ing, and a troop of cavalry at Fort Leav-
enworth, to proceed to Chicago and par
ticipate in the drill. Colonel II. NJ. Black
will be in command.
COLONEL MAJENDIE, chief inspector of
explosives at London, declares that the
sachel Of the woman arrested at Cowes on
suspicion of having dynamite in her pos
session, contained, not dynamite, but
some specimens of modelling in clay, which
the officers mistook for something of a
more dangerous nature.
VIcE-PREsIDENr DECAsTRo of the Com
mercial Cable Company states that no
answer to Mr.. Mackay's proposition has
yet been received, and that if the Western
Union does not agree to it before the end
of the week, the Commercial Gable Com
pany will announce a cut in cable rates
to twelve cents per word.
JAY GOULD, the millionaire, has been
put under bond to pay a bill of $105-that
is, he must pay that sum if it can be sworn
in the United States Circuit Court that
his yacht, Atlanta, did that amount of
damage to the canalboat VIM. E. Cleary
on May "a, while the latter lay safely
moored at dock in Yonkers.
THE German agent at Sofia has been in
structed to continue administrative rela-
tions with the Bulgarian Government, but
to avoid any thing of a nature that might
lead Prince Ferdinand to suppose that
Germany was holding official relations with
him. The French consuls in Bulgaria have